Altamont Enterprise October 3, 1924

 

GUILDERLAND CENTER 

The Loyal Temperance Legion was reorganized on Monday afternoon, September 29th at the school house. The superintendent, Mrs. Martha H. Harding, was in charge. 

VILLAGE NOTES
 Miss Leah E. Mynderse of New York, formerly of Altamont, who has been studying music in France for several weeks, will return to the United States Oct. 17th. Miss Mynderse enjoyed an aeroplane trip from Paris to London recently. 

— John Ryall of Voorheesville was a pleasant caller at the Enterprise office on Thursday. Mr. Ryall is a Civil War veteran, and is more than eighty years of age. 

DUNNSVILLE 

A court of special session was held here before Justice William A. Brinkman and a jury for the trial of Marie Stutts for the alleged shooting of a Guernsey cow belonging to Eva Waituliewiez, the complaint under section 185 of the penal law. After hearing the testimony, the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. 

DELANSON 

— The little house by the bridge, formerly occupied by Mrs. Mollie Olmstead, is rented to an Italian family and they are now living in it. 

— Mrs. Rose Shoudy received an air mail letter from her daughter, Mrs. Mathias of Fresno, California, which was mailed on Wednesday at 7:30 a. m. and reached here Friday at 8:30 a. m. It had a 24 cent stamp affixed to it. Ordinarily it would have taken five or six days to come that distance. 

FORMER VOORHEESVILLE MAN
APPOINTED ASSISTANT CONSUL 

John H. Bruins, the son of Rev. W. H. Bruins of Voorheesville, who has been in the U. S. Consular service at Washington, D. C., for the past year, has been appointed assistant consul at Riga, Latvia, a new sub-division of Russia. 

Mr. Bruins, who will sail Saturday on the Leviathan for his new post, graduated from Hamilton college in 1918, was in service in 1918-19 and was made second Lieutenant at Camp Less, Va. Riga, the post to which Mr. Bruins has been assigned, has a population of 333,000. 

INDIAN LADDER 

— Rain and wind has done considerable damage in and around this place. 

— Work has been started on the new water system for the John Boyd Thacher Park. 

BERNE 

— The heavy rain the first of the week has delayed threshing again. There are several pieces of oats out yet which is unusual for this time of year. 

— Several from this place attended the moving pictures at Altamont on Saturday evening. 

— Dr. W. E. Dietz and daughter Miss Kathryn are home again after spending some time in Brooklyn, Coney Island, New York and the South. They spent two days in Washington, D. C., and one day in Greensborough, N. C., before going to Winston Salem where they saw the big tobacco plants and saw mills. They saw one mill that has just been completed where 1500 colored girls are employed weaving silk. The doctor says the middle south is getting quite well filled with silk mills. Cotton, wheat and tobacco are the principal crops. The soil is red and there are snakes enough to make it interesting for a northerner while there. They spent a few days at each place and on arriving home assumed the toils of pills and pains again, which the doctor says seems the most natural after all. 

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